Glenn Beck's Nazi Exhibit

[_moksha]

Just reading about Glenn Beck's Nazi exhibit at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City earlier this month, made me realize his stuff would be the envy of conservative collectors everywhere.

The adjoining room contained objects from Glenn Beck’s personal collection. This included a hooded KKK cape and a swastika banner which had been used at Nuremberg. Underneath was an illuminated vitrine containing a copy of Mein Kampf signed by Adolf Hitler, a stack of love letters by Hermann Göring, and a satin handkerchief browned with Hitler’s blood. Nearby was an early edition of Anne Frank’s Diary.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/56643489-82/beck-exhibition-glenn-karl.html.csp

Go ahead and click the heels of your black boots together in jealousy, Glenn Beck probably outbid you fair and square. To his credit, he is showing it to his fans at selected venues so buy your tickets now.

[_Droopy]

The Nazis were not conservatives, but radicals and revolutionaries. They were totalitarian socialists. Glen Beck is a modern conservative (classical liberal), not a Nazi. Modern conservatism and National Socialism are diametrically opposed. The closest analog over 20th century history is Marxian utopian socialism and 20th century progressivism broadly speaking.

[_Quasimodo]

The Nazis were not conservatives, but radicals and revolutionaries. They were totalitarian socialists. Glen Beck is a modern conservative (classical liberal), not a Nazi. Modern conservatism and National Socialism are diametrically opposed. The closest analog over 20th century history is Marxian utopian socialism and 20th century progressivism broadly speaking.

What horse crap! The Nazis underlying beliefs were a hatred of Jews (a conservative belief going back centuries in Germany) and a hatred of Communism.

Glen Beck's fascination with Nazi memorabilia says volumes!

You're not fooling anyone, Droopy.

[_Droopy]

The Nazis were not conservatives, but radicals and revolutionaries. They were totalitarian socialists. Glen Beck is a modern conservative (classical liberal), not a Nazi. Modern conservatism and National Socialism are diametrically opposed. The closest analog over 20th century history is Marxian utopian socialism and 20th century progressivism broadly speaking.

What horse crap! The Nazis underlying beliefs were a hatred of Jews (a conservative belief going back centuries in Germany) and a hatred of Communism.

1. Marx himself despised Jews, Judaism, and his own Jewishness to a degree not far at all from Hitler's, and we now know that Stalin had plans for a final solution for the Jews in Europe that, had it been carried out, would have rivaled and perhaps dwarfed Hitler's.

(a conservative belief going back centuries in Germany)

This is a meaningless statement. I have no idea what you mean by "conservatism" as it pertains to any body of ideas going back centuries in Germany, or how that body of ideas, whatever it was, relates to modern 20th century conservatism.

and a hatred of Communism

Hitler himself mentioned openly that Marxists/communists were among the best converts to National Socialism to be found, and encouraged evangelism among the revolutionary Marxist Left whenever possible. Hitler's "hatred" of communism was centered primarily in the observation that many of its main adherents were Jews. Hitler's hatred of free-market capitalism, shared by Marx and his 20th century disciples, was also related, as was Marx', to capitalism's alleged Jewishness.

Both systems were totalitarian. Both systems were socialist. Both systems were anti-capitalist and set severe limits on the use of private property. Both systems subsumed the individual wholly within the organic social mass and to the dominance of the state. Both systems used terror and paranoia as means of gaining and wielding power. Both systems were one party police state-oriented. Both systems were politically, economically, and psychologically collectivist, and both systems persecuted (and still do today, as in Cuba) racial/ethnic minorities.

The low-information citizen, dragging the entire culture down with him into drooling pop cultural oblivion.

Long live public ed and CNN.

[_ldsfaqs]

Glenn Beck is a student of history, a scholar. Thus, his having artifacts of history doesn't make him some Nazi lover.

Further, most of what he has was DONATED to him.

[_ldsfaqs]

What horse crap! The Nazis underlying beliefs were a hatred of Jews (a conservative belief going back centuries in Germany) and a hatred of Communism.

Glen Beck's fascination with Nazi memorabilia says volumes!

You're not fooling anyone, Droopy.

Your's is the utter horse crap.....

Where do you get this idea that a "hatred of jews" is "conservative"? That is utter fantasy!
Further, Obama and Hilary hated each other during the election, that doesn't somehow mean they aren't ideologically from the same tree.

Communists, Socialists, and Fascist's often hate each other, just like Alex Jones/Ron Paul and Conservatives hate each other. That doesn't somehow mean either side is NOT from the same ideological tree and aren't generally friends, especially in most issues and beliefs.

Glenn Beck loves history.... He has a lot of history.
Further, your words speaks the true "volumes".
Because if you knew Glenn Beck, you would know that he regularly show's how liberalism and liberals are the Nazis of today, thus having NOTHING TO DO WITH "HIS" BELIEFS and views as you claim.

Stop being the predictable liberal sheep and use some intelligence for a change.

Again, the liberal exposed for the liar he is.....

[_Droopy]

Where do you get this idea that a "hatred of jews" is "conservative"?

From the general liberal pop media, where everyone get's it. A cursory exploration of the state of the modern Left, however, both here, in the U.K., and on the Continent, will quickly dispel all such illusions.

Communists, Socialists, and Fascist's often hate each other,

Well, when their in the same room, that can surely be the case. When they've each have their own sphere of influence, they tend (as in WWII) to combine together against liberalism (in the classic sense) and even milder forms of leftism. The Nazis and communists would beat the crap out of each other in the streets because both were competing for totalitarian control of a single state, but they had no problem ganging up on liberals and democratic socialists.

[_Quasimodo]

Glenn Beck is a student of history, a scholar. Thus, his having artifacts of history doesn't make him some Nazi lover.

Further, most of what he has was DONATED to him.

The last person on the planet to consider a scholar is Glenn Beck. His only scholarly concern is how to enrich himself. You are being manipulated!

[_Quasimodo]

Stop being the predictable liberal sheep and use some intelligence for a change.

Wanna compare IQ's?

[_Droopy]

You're statements on the ideologies in question and their relationship to each others is quite sufficient to place you at sub-low information voter status.